Half And Half?

 

Half And Half?

     Without Biblical citation, this truth stands.  It is evident when taking the Bible in its entirety that Jesus is totally God, and totally man.  But why is this needs so?

     The kingdom was lost with Adam. In one act of rebellion following a meditation of illegitimate want by our knight in drab armor, Mankind surrendered its authority.  At a whim of fleeting understanding, he threw in the towel to forfeit his crown while grasping for God’s.  If we have been called to forgive, then this man requires our all since he ushered death and torture into our glass aquarium we call the world.

     There had to come another.  One worthy of the crown that once rested on Adam’s head.  Not that Satan stole it to his head, it just fell to the dust.  One had to enact the authority again if Man were to throw off the slavery of spiritual tyrants.  This was Jesus.  Born of a virgin, He entered this world to walk the walk of man.  He left Heaven and became God incarnate.  Becoming all man put Him in the running for supreme ruler of earth, the title jeopardized by His predecessor.  By becoming flesh and blood, He met the solution taking His frame faithfully to the cross.  In dying an undeserving death, His life not warranting His end, we understand a great transfer of power ensued.  When the tempter came to Him, he had nothing on Him.  Death, the one that challenged Man since the fall, was defeated. Satan’s chief threat riding across the sky looming down upon Man’s conscious, was broken.  In this his power was taken.

     Jesus, being all man, took up the fallen crown.  Dusting off the jewels and polishing the gold, He rightly fit it upon His head.  God, His Father, granted Him promised authority.  Once lost now gained, Jesus in His death began reigning as the All Mighty over Earth’s realm.  All spirits in this world suddenly became subject to Him.  And that was a huge thing.

   And now what of Jesus being all God?  A pure sacrifice had to be given to buy back Man from his state which left him at the cliff of self-inflicted destruction.  Like Abraham and Isaac, a son was to be offered.  Not continually as the law required in sacrifices, but once for all.  So, like begets like.  God overshadowed a virgin and birthed a child after His own likeness that we might gain His image.  The transfer of righteousness could only occur if One surrendered it, becoming sin and following in the results thereof.

     The risen Christ championed our faith.  No one here was able to wear the two crowns needed to bring all Heaven and Earth together in one.  God found in Jesus that GodMan.  After three short days, we had our conqueror.   Our One to lead.

     “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” No mortal man could fulfill this calling. Only Christ the Anointed had a proven track record.  Existing with God in the beginning and now running the race of common man to the grave, Jesus proved it.  A true man of genuine faith.  God was pleased to elevate His name above all others, that at His name all should bow in Heaven and on Earth.  Amen.